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Blue plaques

To commemorate and help identify famous people and places that have shaped Chelmsford's history, we have out up a series of blue plaques around the city.

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (Composer)Cecil Armstrong Gibbs was a prolific and versatile English composer, born in Great Baddow in the late 19th century.
Florence Attridge (Marconi employee)Florence Attridge worked at the Marconi wireless factory and received a British Empire Medal for her contributions to the war effort during World War II.
Francis Thomas Bacon (Inventor)Francis Thomas Bacon was an English engineer who was born in Ramsden Heath and developed the first practical hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell.
John Alec Baker (Author, poet and conservationist)John Alec Baker, an English author from Chelmsford, was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for his critically acclaimed work The Peregrine.
Alfred Bennett Bamford (Artist)Major Alfred Bennett Bamford was an English watercolour painter, known for pictures of Essex. He has a plaque in Moulsham Street.
The Black Boy Inn (Infamous watering hole)The Black Boy was a 16th century pub that played host to many important people, including the Duke of Wellington and Charles Dickens.
Frederic Chancellor (Architect, archaeologist and mayor)Frederic Chancellor was a notable local architect, archaeologist and surveyor who began his career in the mid 19th century in Chelmsford.
Fell Christy (Industrialist)Fell Christy opened the Christy & Norris company in Broomfield with his father James in the mid 19th century.
Thomas Clarkson (Manufacturer of omnibuses)Thomas Clarkson ran a number of successful steam car companies, in Chelmsford and London in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Richard Coates (Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation)Richards Coates helped built the Chelmer and Blackwater canal in the late 18th century and later became a major barge owner and merchant.